eli5 Why do people’s voices sound different to them than they do to everyone else?
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What’s funny is that as a kid and teen I would record myself all the time. Now they both sound basically the same to me.
I _think_ it’s something to do with the vibrations of the bones in your eardrums. When you speak those bones vibrate causing you to sound different to how others hear you.
Sounds travels differently through states of matter as other people have said. Those being gas, liquid, and solid. You hear the sound through a solid (your body) and everyone else (including video recordings) hear the sound through a gas. It is also why things sounds differently when your underwater.
I hate the voice others hear but doesn’t bother me that much because I never hear it. Only time it bothers me is when customer service calls me a “miss” and I correct them and make them feel bad
It can also depend on which voice you hear in your head,
I mean a couple of my voices sound similar to hearing my voice back on tape
Recording is even worse…I’m fine with my voice ‘in my head’. Strangely, people say it’s great
Your ears are in a different spot than everyone else’s ears. Other peoples ears don’t have your skull and it’s contents in between.
Because they are inside the head that is speaking with that voice.
Your car also sounds different if you are inside it, compared to when you’re outside the car.
Very similar but different.
It’s like hearing your favorite song: you hear/feel/interpret your own voice like your favorite song on a nice Hitachi/Bose sound system. You feel it like a subwoofer, with the eq dialed in already.
Others hear your voice without the surround sound, like from a a headset on full blast laying on the ground lol. (Okay so I really just had the surround sound analogy in the 1/2 st half.
The difference you notice is the absence of the condition. That’s how I observe it. Makes more sense in my head than these words I huessp
Your jaw bone carries bass to your ears. Thats why recordings of your voice sound funky when you listen back.
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